**UPDATE: Suspect shot and killed by police after killing policeman’s wife. Child found unharmed. The suspect had pledged allegiance to ISIS. Incident over.**
FRANCE — A police officer was fatally stabbed outside of his home in the Paris suburb of Yvelines on Monday.
The 42-year-old officer was attacked while returning home from work at about 9:00 p.m. local time, AFP reported, citing a source.
According to RFI, the attacker then took the officer’s wife and son hostage in the home.
The ‘Elite Raid’ police officers were on the scene and a security perimeter was established, the report said.
A motive was not known but Reuters France reported: “Some neighbors believe hearing Islamist slogans proffered by the abuser.”
Yvelines is a French department in the region of Île-de-France.
Le #RAID est sur place depuis plusieurs heures. #Magnanville pic.twitter.com/l1b1wUOwut
— Capu Patriote ن (@CapuPatriote) June 13, 2016